Australian geocoding API & spreadsheet geocoder
Turn any Australian address into coordinates and any coordinate back into an address, down to the unit. ABS areas, councils and electorates come back in the same request.
curl -G https://api.geokite.cloud/v1/geocode \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $GEOKITE_KEY" \ --data-urlencode "q=100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank VIC 3006" \ -d fields=timezone,lga
const params = new URLSearchParams({ q: "100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank VIC 3006", fields: "timezone,lga", }); const res = await fetch(`https://api.geokite.cloud/v1/geocode?${params}`, { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.GEOKITE_KEY}` }, }); const { results } = await res.json();
import os, requests r = requests.get( "https://api.geokite.cloud/v1/geocode", params={"q": "100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank VIC 3006", "fields": "timezone,lga"}, headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['GEOKITE_KEY']}"}, ) print(r.json()["results"][0]["location"])
{ "results": [{ "formatted_address": "100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank VIC 3006", "location": { "lat": -37.82141, "lng": 144.96901 }, "accuracy": 1.0, "accuracy_type": "rooftop", "source": "G-NAF", "fields": { "timezone": "Australia/Melbourne", "lga": "Melbourne" } }] }
Geocoding API
Predictable JSON, plain HTTP and an API key. If you can make a request, you can geocode, from a single lookup to millions of rows.
Send a full or partial address and get back latitude and longitude, a standardised address and an accuracy score. Typos, abbreviations, unit numbers and missing postcodes are handled for you.
GET /v1/geocode?q=…Turn a GPS point into the nearest street address, suburb or city and postcode. Built for fleet pings, check-ins and photo metadata.
GET /v1/reverse?lat=…&lng=…Post up to 10,000 addresses in one request and get results back in the same order. Run batches in parallel for jobs in the millions.
POST /v1/geocodePOST /v1/reverseSplit messy input into unit, number, street, locality, state and postcode, normalise abbreviations and return one consistent format, ready for deduplication.
GET /v1/parse?q=…Add ABS statistical areas, councils, electorates or timezones to any lookup with one parameter. No second vendor and no spatial joins on your side.
&fields=asgs,lga,electorateStraight-line distance between any set of addresses or coordinates, without geocoding them first. Drive time and drive distance are on the roadmap.
GET /v1/distanceDrive time sooncurl -X POST "https://api.geokite.cloud/v1/geocode?fields=asgs,lga" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $GEOKITE_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '[ "100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank VIC 3006", "64 Adelaide St, Brisbane City QLD 4000", "Parliament Dr, Canberra ACT 2600" ]'
formatted_address standardised, one format location lat / lng, WGS84 accuracy 0 – 1 confidence score accuracy_type rooftop → postcode centroid components number, street, unit, locality… source which open dataset matched fields any data appends you asked for
| Address | Latitude | Longitude | Accuracy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank VIC | -37.82141 | 144.96901 | rooftop |
| 64 Adelaide St, Brisbane City QLD | -27.46884 | 153.02353 | rooftop |
| Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW | -33.85681 | 151.21514 | property |
| Parliament Dr, Canberra ACT | -35.30820 | 149.12440 | street |
| Melbourne VIC 3000 | -37.81360 | 144.96310 | postcode |
Spreadsheet geocoding
For analysts, ops and research teams: upload, pick what you need, download. Same engine, same accuracy as the API.
One address column or split across street, suburb, state and postcode. We detect the layout.
ABS areas, councils, electorates and more, added as new columns.
Your original rows, untouched, with coordinates and accuracy alongside. Large files welcome.
Data appends
Every Australian address sits inside dozens of official boundaries. Ask for them by name and they come back with the result, from the same request.
asgsremotenessfederalstatelgalocalitygnaf_pidtimezoneAccuracy you can read
No silent guesses. Each match carries an accuracy type and a score from 0 to 1, so your code can accept a rooftop hit and send a postcode-level fallback for review.
Typos, abbreviations, unit numbers and missing postcodes are cleaned up before matching, and a weak match is never dressed up as a rooftop hit.
rooftopA point on the building itself.
1.00propertyThe centre of the land parcel, used when the building isn't mapped.
0.90streetThe street was found but not the number. Placed along the street.
0.60localityCentre of the suburb or town.
0.40postcodeCentre of the postcode area. The last resort, clearly labelled.
0.30Coverage
Built on the official national address file and refreshed with every release. New countries go live only once they meet the same accuracy bar.
Example lookup
unit 4, 100 st kilda road southbank
4/100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank VIC 3006rooftop
Tell us where you need coverage next. Demand decides which country launches first.
Why Geokite
Geocoding touches your most sensitive data: where your customers live. We designed every part of the service around that.
Every lookup is answered from our own database. Your addresses are never forwarded to Google, Mapbox or any other provider.
Cache them, store them, put them on any map. No display restrictions and no expiry on the coordinates you paid for.
We keep what billing needs and nothing more. Uploaded spreadsheets are deleted automatically after you download the result.
Pay per thousand lookups or a flat monthly fee. No seat licences, no surprise overages and no annual lock-in.
Questions are answered by the people who build the geocoder, not a ticket queue reading from a script.
Every result names the official dataset it came from, so you can audit a match and explain it to your own customers.
Use cases
Price risk by location and report exposure by ABS area, council or remoteness.
Clean addresses at checkout, plan routes and stop failed deliveries before they start.
Place listings, vehicles and hosts on a map and match people by distance.
Normalise listings, join property records and enrich them with neighbourhood data.
Link patient or survey addresses to ABS statistical areas without sending data to big tech.
Find every supporter's federal and state electorate in one batch.
Map customers, measure catchments and choose the next store with real demographics.
Check that an address exists and sits where the applicant says it does.
Pricing
Every plan includes forward, reverse and batch geocoding, spreadsheet uploads and every country we cover.
For prototypes, side projects and trying us out.
After your free 2,500 each day. No minimums, billed monthly.
For steady, high-volume workloads with a fixed budget.
On-premise or private-cloud deployment, custom data sources, uptime SLA, security reviews and invoicing in your currency.
Prices in USD. Each data append counts as one additional lookup.
Geocoding turns a street address into latitude and longitude coordinates. Reverse geocoding does the opposite: it turns coordinates into the nearest address. Geokite does both for Australian addresses, one at a time or in batches, and can attach ABS statistical areas, councils, electorates and timezones to each result.
Geokite covers every address in Australia, across all states and territories, down to individual units and apartments. The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom are coming soon, and you can ask to be notified when each one launches.
Most addresses resolve to a rooftop or property-level point, even when the input has typos, abbreviations or a missing postcode. Every result includes an accuracy type and a score from 0 to 1, so you always know how precise a match is and can decide what to trust.
Yes. Results are yours to keep, cache and use on any map or in any database, with no requirement to display them on a particular map provider.
No. Every lookup is answered from our own database, built from official open address data. Your addresses are never forwarded to a third-party geocoder.
The first 2,500 lookups every day are free. After that it is $0.45 per 1,000 lookups, with no minimums, or $799 a month for unlimited lookups. Enterprise plans with on-premise deployment and custom terms are available.
Yes. Upload a CSV or Excel file, choose the address columns and the data you want appended, and download the same file with coordinates and the extra columns added.
The batch endpoint accepts up to 10,000 addresses per request. For larger jobs, send several batches in parallel or upload a spreadsheet.
Grab a free key, make one request, see a rooftop come back. 2,500 lookups a day are on us.